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wear, like them, fandals ; like them, have their 
heads covered with a cap formed of the fkiu 
of a jackal ; and., like them alfo, go almoft en^ 
tirely naked, wearing before only a very fmall 
upron of modefty, and on their loins the piece 
of leather of which I have before fpoken. At 
their fide is a box made of wood, ivory, or 
tortoife-fhell, to hold the greafe with which 
they boughou and befraear themfelvesj and 
the tail of fome quadruped^ fixed to the end 
of a ftick, with which they wipe their body 
and face when they perfpire. They have no 
beads nor any ornament whatever, unlefs we 
confidjsr as ornam^ents garters and bracelets of 
5:'aw leather. 
As a fondnefs for drefs and a defire of plea- 
fing are, however, natural to the fex, the 
Houzouana women no fooner faw the beads 
and toys with which thofe in my troop were 
crnam.ented than they exprefled a defire to 
have fome alfo. .1 diftributed, therefore, a few 
to each of them ; and from that moment they 
never ceafed to wear them, and with much 
apparent fatisfadion, 
I have faid that they boughou and befmear 
theoifelves with greafe. This cuftom is com- 
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